DARPA defence science organisation wants ideas on how to build a flying drone carrier

A FLYING aircraft carrier? DARPA – the US military’s think-tank for all things weird and wonderful – wants you to help it with its latest scheme. The call for ideas, issued earlier this week, has some specific requirements. First, they don’t want the enormous – and impossible – flying ships as seen in Dr Who and The Avengers. Though that would be cool. Instead, they want wacky ideas that may just work when it comes to attaching a fleet of drones to a large manned aircraft such as the C-130 Hercules, C-17 Globemaster or…